On 9/25/07, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I guess I'll have to become familiar with wget. Can anyone point me to > configuration files or frontends? I'll check out the man page, but I > doubt that it will tell me much about frontends.
My favorite recipe for downloading single big files is: $ wget -c -T10 -b here goes URL address like ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/sabayonlinux/SabayonLinux-x86-3.4f.iso This says "get this file, (-c) be prepared to continue from where you left off after a failure, (-T 10) retry after 10 seconds, (-b) put process in background and make a log file". The program will tell you the name of the log file, e.g. "wget-log". You can see progress by $ tail -f wget-log If you have a high-speed connection, you can fire off two or three of these to get different files. I don't know of any GUI front ends for this, I am sure that one could be made using tcl/tk. carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- KPLUG-Newbie@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
